>> On top of that I believe there is still a patent issue with regard to
>> VRRP. Cisco is holding it.
>
> Alexandre knew about this and contacted cisco before writing keepalived.
> He was reassured that he would have no problems.
> The people who wrote CARP apparently weren't convinced.
I remember. Wouldn't it be nice to consolidate it? I know one of the
CARP guys personally, I could ask him.
> cisco has the patent on NAT (I believe). Why haven't they asserted it?
Hmm, I think this would be very difficult to assert, or even to file a
patent for. Don't you think that they rather filed a patent for a
specific method of implementing NAT?
> They should be able to make mucho $ out of that.
Does anybody know the specific patent no.? So we could check. Someone
with enough time could try:
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
http://164.195.100.11/netahtml/search-adv.htm
Regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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